The Beauty of Dance, Part Two: Jeanne Ruddy, Jeanne Ruddy Dance Company, Philadelphia, PA

Here's Jeanne Ruddy, the founder and artistic director of the dance company of the same name. :-)



A former principal dancer with the Martha Graham Company, Ms. Ruddy performed leading roles in many Graham works, including Andromache's Lament, Diversion of Angels, Deaths and Entrances, and Seraphic Dialogue, among others. She founded Jeanne Ruddy Dance in 1999, and in the summer of 2008 represented Philadelphia artists in the American delegation that attended the Tanzmesse conference in Düsseldorf, Germany.